Can't import OVA file or unpack it with tar - eviltoast

I’m on an Arch-based Linux with VirtualBox (generic installer, couldn’t load modules with host-modules-arch) and I get this error whenever I try to import this OVA file:

Error reading OVA ‘…/coa-aio-newton.ova’ (VERR_TAR_UNEXPECTED_EOS) Result Code: VBOX_E_IPRT_ERROR (0X80BB0005) Component: ApplianceWrap Interface: IAppliance {86a98347-7619-41aa-aece-b21ac5c1a7e6}

Apparently, these OVA files should be unpackable but tar doesn’t recognize it, and neither Ark or PeaZip can unzip this, but importing this OVA file works on Win 10.

I’ve tried using VMWare but that gave me an import error too. Why can’t virtualization work at all on Arch-based systems?

  • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
    2·
    11 months ago

    That file was downloaded wrong. I can guess that you used the broken dropbox link and this file contains a 404 page or you used git clone without git-lfs installed.

    • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyzOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      Absolutely right, I have only used git clone. Thank you for showing git-lfs, never heard of it before.